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| Marco Vassalli and Clint Borzoni |
Italian-German barihunk Marco Vassalli is making his much anticipated U.S. debut with Musica Marin in a concert that includes the world premiere of two Clint Borzoni songs. The texts of
these songs were selected by and written for the singer and are written for string quartet and baritone. Vassalli chose Hermann Hesse's
Stufen and Hilde Domin's
Margere Kost.
Borzoni and Vassalli have never met in person and worked on the songs together over Facebook video and Skype. San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter broke the news in a recent article, which you can read
HERE.
Borzoni recently completed his fourth opera,
When Adonis Calls,
based on the poetry of Gavin Dillard. The opera was presented at
Fort Worth Opera’s 2015 Frontiers Showcase. He is currently working on his fifth opera,
The Copper Queen, with librettist John de los Santos for Arizona Opera’s program, Arizona Spark.
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| Marco Vassalli |
The premiere is being funded with an
Indiegogo campaign that launched today. Some of the perks include having one of the songs dedicated to you, a signed page from the compoer's notebook, copies of Vassalli's CD of Italian songs and access to numerous private events and concerts. Vassalli also posed for a provocative new calendar that is now available for sale
HERE. All of those proceeds will also be used to fund the world premiere of the Borzoni songs.
We encourage our readers to help out with one of the two campaigns.
Vassalli is currently performing in
Leonard Bernstein's Candide at the Staatsoper Hannover. A German singer born of Italian roots, he grew up on Lake Constance and began his studies at the Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne, where he studied with the famed soprano Edda Moser.
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